"Come on, guys! Give it your all! We need to defeat these two to rescue Hinata-chan!" Naruto exclaimed as he evaded a punch and tried to return it with a kick, but his opponent easily side-stepped. They swung a kunai at his neck, but had to abandon the attack mid-motion and jump back because of Sakura's kunai that almost hit them.
"Agh! We know you idiot!" Sakura and Kiba yelled at the same time, but neither lost focus.
"If you have energy to talk, then attack harder!" Sakura exclaimed, sweat dripping down her forehead as she threw kunai every time their two enemies got an opportunity to attack, trying to force them to retreat.
She was on a support duty because of her vulnerable, freshly healed limb, and having her teammates' lives in her hands was taking its toll on her.
She was not in the mood for some half-witted motivational speech, SHANNAROOOO!
"Akamaru! Kai!" Kiba shouted, putting his fingers together in a hand sign after he threw his dog at the black-haired, brown-skinned Kumo kunoichi attacking them.
He and Shino had the kunoichi while Naruto and Sasuke were dealing with the Kumo ninja. After eating and resting a bit, their team and Team Seven started their way to the Tower, but half an hour later, when they were nearing it, Hinata suddenly shouted that she needed to check something before she darted away from them.
It had them confused, but well, both Kiba and Shino thought that their female teammate was very capable and could handle herself.
They stopped in a nearby clearing and decided to wait for Hinata.
That was when they were intercepted by the two chucklefucks in front of them, who proclaimed they were Jonin from Kumo and the man mocked them that the little Hyuga princess had four more of these bastards after her.
Kiba was usually a carefree dude. But even he got a bit worried upon hearing that Hinata was facing four Jonin!
After releasing the special transformation Jutsu of their clan from the puppy-sized Akamaru, he changed into his full, grown-up form mid-flight to the now surprised kunoichi.
Akamaru twisted his body and managed to briefly slash his claws on the woman's forearm before she got out of her shock and evaded to the side, barely avoiding Akamaru's body smashing into her as he sailed past her.
Her blood still fell onto the ground from the claw marks he left on her forearm, causing her to wince before she snarled in fury. She turned toward Kiba with murder in her green eyes, gripping her tanto harder just as Akamaru's paws hit the ground behind her and he started sliding to stop on them, ready to pounce at their opponent again.
But the woman had already leapt at Kiba by then, about to swing her tanto at him, who only had his kunai to guard himself...
When Shino's bugs suddenly rose from the slightly higher grass in front of Kiba, making the kunoichi's eye widen as her momentum led her directly into the swarm.
Kiba grinned with savage glee. Ha! All that losing to Hinata in spars was not for nothing! He and Shino developed some neat team strategies when they tried to beat her.
Not even waiting, Kiba pushed against the ground, leaping into the air while twisting his body into Gatsuga as he smashed right through the swarm of Shino's bugs where the kunoichi was supposed to be, hitting something before going right through it.
Landing in a crouch near Akamaru, Kiba quickly turned back... only to see chunks of ripped and smashed wood fall to the ground from the swarm.
Tch. Kawarimi. He should have expected that.
Both Akamaru and Kiba sniffed the air, trying to locate their enemy, only to hear a slight buzz of bugs to the left that had them turn their head toward it. There she was, kneeling on a tree branch while breathing hard, shocked that a pair of genin were giving her so much trouble.
Kiba would be very happy with himself if he were not weighed down by the crushing need to dispatch her fast. Hinata could be in a lot of trouble, and every second they wasted here was a second they were not helping her!
Shino suddenly appeared behind the Kumo kunoichi.
And was promptly cut in half at the waist by her sword, only to turn into bugs, revealing it was only a bug clone. The bugs instantly flew at her, desiring to swarm her again.
Snarling, the Kumo kunoichi barely managed to jump back, evading the swarm.
But Kiba and Akamaru were already there, two Gatsugas intercepting her retreat route.
Showing her exceptional agility, the Kumo kunoichi once again twisted in the air, sliding right between the two Gatsugas mid-air, only getting a couple of bloody gashes when their claws briefly scraped against her, but it was still better than being hit head-on.
She even managed to coat her sword with lightning and slash it at Kiba as he was passing her, but he managed to block it with the sole of his sandal. Thankfully, Hinata gave him the wisdom to splurge a bit of money to insert a small chakra metal plate into each sole.
He thought it a waste. Nobody was doing that! But as he landed on the ground with cold sweat pouring down his neck, Kiba couldn't help but appreciate the advice now. If he hadn't channeled his chakra into the chakra metal plate, hardening it at the last moment, the lightning-coated blade would have gone through his foot like a knife through butter.
"Fucking crafty brats." The Kumo kunoichi landed and muttered under her nose. Kiba heard it only thanks to his exceptional hearing.
Abruptly, she shifted her head down while turning it to the left. A kunai, courtesy of Sakura, impacted the metal plate of the kunoichi's headband, harmlessly bouncing against it, causing Sakura to click her tongue as her cheap shot to the side of the kunoichi's head had not worked out.
Seeing that Shino and Kiba had their fight well in their hands, Sakura turned back to her teammates, who were facing the Kumo ninja, the pressure somewhat getting to her as she rubbed her sweaty palms into her skirt before pulling out another kunai from her pouch.
"Plan Three!" Sasuke suddenly yelled out.
"Got it!" Naruto yelled back, and the whole battlefield was suddenly engulfed in smoke.
Several dozen shadow clones swarmed toward the Kumo Jonin, who started dispatching them with lightning-fast taijutsu moves, showing the difference between his and Naruto's combat capabilities.
A moment later, as he was about to punch a clone in front of him in the face, Sakura's kunai made his eye twitch as he simply leaned his head to the right, letting the kunai barely miss him.
This, however, gave enough time for Sasuke, who quickly substituted with the shadow clone in front of the man and shot a Fireball from his mouth straight into his face.
The man's eyes widened before he was engulfed in flames.
Sakura took a small, careful breath.
And she felt herself being yanked away via substitution before she appeared in a different location, disoriented.
Sasuke's head whipped toward her previous position, only to catch the Kumo Jonin finish breaking the neck of Naruto's shadow clone, who saved Sakura by substituting with her.
Clicking his tongue, Sasuke moved forward before he substituted with the clone who jumped at the Kumo Jonin from behind. The momentum was preserved, and he instantly rammed into the Jonin's back with his knees, making the man stumble. Sasuke used his body as a springboard, twisting in the air and sending a Konoha Senpuu kick toward the man's face, only for him to put his palm in its path, intending to intercept and catch Sasuke's shin.
With the corner of his Sharingan, he caught another clone sneaking toward the man from the side and substituted with that one just an inch away from having his shin caught.
His spinning kick was still mid-motion, but it lost most of its force as it hit the Kumo Jonin behind his left knee, causing him to stumble. He let Sasuke hit him as that weak blow helped to move him out of the trajectory of another of Sakura's kunais, and Sasuke inwardly snarled at the small smirk the Kumo Jonin threw him when he noticed it, already in motion to leap away from the Jonin.
The smugness of the man didn't last long as the kunai that was harmlessly passing by above his head suddenly turned into Naruto, and the boy's fist smashed directly into the middle of the Jonin's smirking face with enough force to lift him from his feet and send him tumbling to the ground.
The Jonin quickly managed to get control of his momentum and pushed himself back on his feet. Snorting a bit of blood from his now broken nose, he gave a narrowed glare at the three supposed genin in front of him.
Their teamwork was very annoying.
"You-." He started speaking, wanting to engage in some good ol' psychological warfare to unsettle the little genin, hoping to hamper their teamwork with it.
But before he could get even the first word out of his mouth, some sort of wind technique smashed into his back, courtesy of Naruto, sending him crashing forward, right toward a clone that was nearly instantly substituted by Sasuke.
The kunai blades swished through the air.
The Jonin managed to land heavily on his feet as the blade of his kunai blocked the blade of Sasuke's kunai.
Sharingan eyes met his brown ones.
His eyes widened in realization as Sasuke's expression gained a little bit of triumph.
"Kai!" The Jonin instantly broke the illusion and just barely managed to swat away a kunai about to land on his shoulder, thrown by that irritating pink-haired girl.
He would have usually just dodged it and focused on the more dangerous Uchiha boy in front of him, but the threat of the orange clone menace popping out of the kunai was too big for him to ignore.
If the idiot had nailed him in the kunai to the face instead of punching him, this fight would have been long over.
He couldn't believe he felt this much pressure from facing three stupid Konoha genin!
Of course, dealing with the kunai took way more effort and attention than just sidestepping it, and Sasuke used the distraction well. The Jonin had realized almost too late that there was another layer to the genjutsu and had his neck split open because of it.
Unfortunately, he was barely in time and managed to lean back, getting only a skin-deep nick instead of a ripped-open, bloody gash on his neck.
His fist smashed through the head of the boy in front of him.
But the annoying Uchiha was already substituted by another shadow clone that just popped out of existence.
The Jonin jumped up, evading a few small fireballs about to smash into his back, and caught a branch with his hand. Somersaulting around the branch, he landed on it with his feet and flexed his chakra as his hands started quickly going through hand signs.
"Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder!"
He exclaimed and sent the technique crashing down at the annoying genin and clones on the ground.
The technique hit with a blinding flash of lightning, sending a rumble through the surrounding area as the airwave swept through the vicinity, causing the man to brace himself on the branch with his chakra.
The Kumo kunoichi suddenly body-flickered next to him and threw him an annoyed glance, "You could have at least warned me first." She grumbled, but from her labored breathing, he could tell that she desperately needed the distraction.
"Tsk." The Jonin clicked his tongue in reply, his eyes trying to find the genin, hoping they were dead.
But they had no such luck. All five of the genin appeared on the other side of the devastated area, more or less fine. The Jonin sullenly realized that the orange menace probably managed to get them all out of the way of his technique with clone substitutions just before his Electromagnetic Murder hit.
This was supposed to be the easy job. Just dispatching a few wet-behind-the-ears genin. He sighed.
Genin, his well-sculpted ass. The only one on the level of genin from these five was the pink-haired kid. And even she was good enough cannon fodder, capable of throwing her kunai with passable precision.
Well, at least the clones were dealt wi-
The area was suddenly engulfed in white smoke once again before the smoke quickly dispersed, revealing another small army of eye-sore orange shadow clones, causing the Jonin to release a long-suffering groan.
"Oh, you gotta be shitting me." He grumbled under his nose, in disbelief at the amount of chakra thrown left and right by the kid. This was starting to get ridiculous. "Should have gone after the Hyuga girl instead."
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